No.1339 S.SILAS THE MARTYR AND THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, KENTISH TOWN Presbytery: Tel and Fax 020 7485 3727. Website: www.saintsilas.org.uk E mail: [email protected] News sheet for the week beginning 21st December 2014 Sunday 21st ADVENT IV (O Oriens) 9.30am PARISH MASS (with Crèche/Sunday School) (H.T) 11.00am PARISH MASS (with Crèche/Sunday School) 4.00pm Advent Carol Service and Benediction (H.T) 6.00pm Said Mass and Benediction (S.S) Pro populo Pro populo Faith Davey R. & L. 8.45am; V.5.30pm Monday 22nd Feria (O Rex Gentium) R. & L. 7.30am; V. 6.00pm Tuesday 23rd Feria (O Emmanuel) 12 noon Mass (S.S) 3.00pm Mass at Maitland Park 6.30pm Mass (S.S) Rosaline Tsang R.I.P. Terry Bexley The Residents R. & L. 7.30am; V. 5.45pm Wednesday 24th Christmas Eve 8.00am Mass of Advent (S.S) 4.00pm Carol Service (S.S) 6.00pm Mass of the Vigil (S.S) Diane Moore Raymond Pearson R.I.P. R. & L. 7.30am; V. 6.30pm; R. 11.15pm Thursday 25th THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD 12 midnight SOLEMN MASS and Blessing of the Crib (S.S) Pro populo 9.30am SOLEMN MASS of the Dawn (H.T) Pro populo 11.00am SOLEMN MASS AND BENEDICTION (S.S) Pro populo L. 9.00am; V. 7.00pm Friday 26th S. STEPHEN 11.00am SOLEMN MASS (S.S) 6.00pm Mass (S.S) S. Stephen’s House Michael Brown R.I.P. R. & L. 7.30 am; V. 5.45pm Saturday 27th S. JOHN THE APOSTLE Next Sunday 28th THE HOLY FAMILY 10.00am Mass (Latin) (S.S) Peter our Bishop R. & L. 9.30am; V. 6.00pm 9.30am PARISH MASS (with Crèche/Sunday School) (H.T) 11.00am PARISH MASS (with Crèche/Sunday School) (S.S) 6.00pm Said Mass and Benediction (S.S) R. & L. 8.45am; V. 5.30pm Confessions: Monday 6.00pm, Tuesday 11.15am and 6.00pm or by appointment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TODAY there will, as usual, be coffee, tea etc. after both morning Masses and we hope that you will be able to stay. After Mass tickets are on sale from Ruby and Ros for the Christmas Cake Raffle: all proceeds from the latter will go to the Tower Fund at Holy Trinity. The Draw will take place during the refreshments after the Carol Service this afternoon. There will also be a retiring collection towards the cost of flowers for Christmas. OUR CRIB OFFERINGS will again this year go to ‘Freedom from Torture’which includes many children. PARISH CHRISTMAS CARDS There is a table at the back of S. Silas for you to place your cards for your friends in the congregation. Please use it and also check it to see who has left cards for you! CHRISTMAS DAY is a Holyday of Obligation when we ought to be at Mass unless prevented by some serious cause. There are many opportunities to fulfil that Obligation, including the Mass of the Vigil which is said before public transport ceases and our lives become more complicated! I hope that we shall take full advantage of them! THE DAILY MASSES will continue as usual during the Octave, though the Monday Mass will be at 12 noon rather than in the evening. On New Year’s Day, the Feast of Our Lady the Mother of God, there is a SOLEMN MASS at S. Silas at 12 noon and a Said Mass at 6.00pm. PLEASE PRAY FOR all those on our sick lists especially Philip Freeman, Jimmy East, Terry Bexley, Colin Queen, Derek Steel, Faith Davey, Janet Gillam, Diane Moore, Peter Lister, Doreen Moodie, Patrick O’Donnell and Marquis Coker; for Holy Trinity and S. Silas School and all our staff and children; for the recently bereaved and for the departed especially Ethel O’Connor, Kenneth Cox, Philip Geddes, Kathleen Rowlands, Clive Withey, Rosaline Tsang, Jim Garner, Raymond Pearson, Ann Walker, Jack Castree, Hugh Massingberd, Glenda McShane, Ronald Lumley, Olwyn White, Michael Brown, Hilary Naylor, Frank Webb, Thomas Brice, Thomas Morey, Ebie Hatfield and Annie Mundy. Please take this sheet away with you!